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Coinbase Announces 18% Layoffs

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Re: Coinbase Announces 18% Layoffs

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there a "recession" in the rest of the tech industry? I took that to be the point of the person you are replying to.

Yes? Many stocks are down >50% and companies are announcing hiring freezes

How is that a recession?

Re: Coinbase Announces 18% Layoffs

#92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there a "recession" in the rest of the tech industry? I took that to be the point of the person you are replying to.

Yes? Many stocks are down >50% and companies are announcing hiring freezes

Yeah, It is not exclusive to crypto is it? We've already seen that even Tesla and Netflix announced layoffs. So, there's that.

Re: Coinbase Announces 18% Layoffs

#93
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>If you are affected, you will receive this notification in your personal email, because we made the decision to cut access to Coinbase systems for affected employees. I realize that removal of access will feel sudden and unexpected, and this is not the experience I wanted for you. Given the number of employees who have access to sensitive customer information, it was unfortunately the only practical choice, to ensur…

Pretty standard when layoffs occur. They happen and people are told to pack up and leave. System access is usually turned off while the announcement is being made to prevent disgruntled from harming the business.

Coinbase is probably still mostly remote, so it's about the same thing as shuffling everyone into a conference room and turning off access.

Re: Coinbase Announces 18% Layoffs

#95
post #60

> If you are affected, you will receive this notification in your personal email, because we made the decision to cut access to Coinbase systems for affected employees. I realize that removal of access will feel sudden and unexpected, and this is not the experience I wanted for you. Given the number of employees who have access to sensitive customer information, it was unfortunately the only practical choice, to ensu…

This is very typical. He is talking about cutting now former employees access to email, source code repositories, internal systems. It is done all the time. It looks very harsh.

Re: Coinbase Announces 18% Layoffs

#96
Seems absurd that 18% can be laid off without an extended consultation period, proper notice, proper protocol of who should be laid off, etc.

If any UK staff are affected, then I would talk to citizens' advice (or a solicitor if you can afford it) asap.

Know your rights: https://www.gov.uk/redundancy-your-rights/consultation

You’re entitled to a consultation with your employer if you’re being made redundant. This involves speaking to them about:

  why you’re being made redundant
  any alternatives to redundancy
If your employer is making up to 19 redundancies, there are no rules about how they should carry out the consultation. If they’re making 20 or more redundancies at the same time, the collective redundancy rules apply.

Re: Coinbase Announces 18% Layoffs

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post #53

Why has the crypto boom and bust lined up so closely with the COVID pandemic? Is it a coincidence or is there some underlying cause?

Of course: governments around the world flooded markets with stimulus cash and it all had to go somewhere. Now they are unwinding stimulus and it’s going away. Every reasonable observer has just been waiting for this to happen.

I thought crypto would collapse every year for the last 14 years, and I've been proven wrong every time. So I'm wondering why this time I'm right.

Re: Coinbase Announces 18% Layoffs

#98
post #60

> If you are affected, you will receive this notification in your personal email, because we made the decision to cut access to Coinbase systems for affected employees. I realize that removal of access will feel sudden and unexpected, and this is not the experience I wanted for you. Given the number of employees who have access to sensitive customer information, it was unfortunately the only practical choice, to ensu…

I’m would say pretty common? Sometimes it happens to personal accounts if the user has access to sensitive data. For setups that aren’t as sensitive or groups of employees that don’t have access to such data, various systems may be locked down for a period. For example, access to source control or staging/production environments may be generally limited. For unexpected one-off firings, the user is often locked out before they’re aware they’ve been let go.

Re: Coinbase Announces 18% Layoffs

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post #53

Why has the crypto boom and bust lined up so closely with the COVID pandemic? Is it a coincidence or is there some underlying cause?

Central bank action. The federal reserve drastically cut rates at the start of the pandemic, so a lot of people were stuck at home with cheap money.

Now, inflation is spiking, so the federal reserve raised rates and money isn't as cheap as it used to be, therefore people are pulling out of the market.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/interest-rate

Re: Coinbase Announces 18% Layoffs

#100

> Coinbase has survived through four major crypto winters I don't understand - has crypto been around long enough to have winters? When were they?

If we're talking Bitcoin: - Early 2014 ($1,000 -> $300) - Late 2018/Early 2018 ($19,500 -> $6,800) - April 2021 ($63,000 -> $35,000) - Nov 2021-Now ($67,000-> $22,000)

Sounds like typical market swings and gyrations in highly speculative markets. Happens in other boom-bust speculation assets from gold to oil to tulips. Are these "winters" or just wild market swings?
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